Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Treading Water. Halvard Lange would need courage and the ability to keep his feet on the ground if he were to cope with the U.S.S.R. He showed he had both when, the morning after the party, he wiped the slate clean of a lesser problem. Standing in the smoke-filled Oslo officers' club beneath a foot-high wall inscription of the Norwegian kings' motto, "Alt for Norge" (All for Norway), Lange voiced his final no to the Swedish-Danish suggestion of a Scandinavian neutrality bloc...
...reply was courageous, and it kept Norway's feet on the ground. It told Russia placidly that Norway would investigate the conditions for joining the Atlantic pact, that she would not grant bases to foreign powers unless attacked "or subjected to threats of attack...
...vast National Gallery, it was easy to miss the 28 small pieces of Egyptian sculpture set up last week in one of the first-floor galleries. None of the well-preserved little Nile maidens with their high busts and long bobs stands more than 30 inches in bare feet. The handsome obsidian head of Pharaoh Amenemhat III (1800 B.C.), ranked by Egyptologists as one of the great masterpieces of Egyptian art, measures less than 5 inches from chin to crown. Other pieces-the intricately carved make-up spoon used by Egyptian belles to mix cosmetics, and the bronze cat (with...
...occupational hazards of airmen). The pilot's jaw rests on a padded adjustable shelf. A counter-weighted forehead strap takes the strain off his neck. He steers the plane by resting his forearms in movable "pans" with hand grips for stick, throttle, etc., at their forward ends. His feet work the rudder, brakes, or both...
...runway at Olympian Hill to try for the Seattle Ski Club tournament championship. One by one they plummeted down the slide, took off into the cold air in the most spectacular sight known to sport. A couple of them landed as much as 285 feet down the slope. When it came his turn, slender, nervous Sverre Kongsgaard of Norway eyed the crowd of 4,000 far below. Then he shoved...